· 3/9/2022
in Re Jordan Hoppe
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- noting that trial judges have discretion in determining attorneys’ fees awards, and that the trial judge’s use of the lodestar analysis without considering additional factors was not clearly erroneous
- holding buyer corporation was successor where employees and managers all maintained their same positions
- noting that a predecessor company’s liabilities imposed upon successor where one or more of the following is present: (1) the successor expressly or impliedly assumes liability of the predecessor, (2) the transaction is a de facto merger or consolidation, (3
- finding sufficient evidence of successor liability where the buyer agreed to pay certain creditors of the seller and assumed the seller’s executory contracts
- successor company 2 The assets SPG acquired included the patient medical records the plaintiff sought. However, it was undisputed that under the NBMA-SPG Asset Purchase Agreement (APA
- successor functioned in same manner as 6 predecessor with same employees, product, and services
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